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Re: DPKG, RPM. Life sucks.

The habit of dpkg to have --force-overwrite as a default has always
puzzled me. IMHO it is a bug if a package overwrites files without a
replaces: field in control. --force-overwrite should never be
automatically enabled as it is right now.

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > Well, actually it would be much nicer if alien would refuse to install a
> > "foriegn" (for now read RedHat) package into any of the "core" areas of
> > the distribution unless those packages are 100% compatible with a Debian
> > system. Although applications packages can have problems finding paths to
> > needs they will not "hose" the system like some of the "core" packages
> > will.
> > Joey Hess is the currently listed maintainer of alien. How hard would it
> > be to impliment a "rejection" list in alien Joey?
> 
> I think the first bit to keep from breaking things is to make sure that
> packages converted by alien aren't installed with --force-overwrite
> enabled.  Have them fail if attempting to overwrite existing stuff will go
> a long way to keeping people from breaking core pieces.
> 
>